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How long did it take to become self hosting? I checked the first tag on GitHub and it was still implemented in Crystal. Did you originally implement it in C or

• rajahafify 11y ago
  From what I understand in another post of their's, Crystal used to be written in ruby, before they successfully compiled it using Crystal.
• asterite 11y ago
  It took about one year. We originally implemented the compiler in Ruby and because of its similarity with Crystal (or the other way around ;-)) porting it to Crystal was pretty easy in the end. There's this tag: https://github.com/manastech/crystal/releases/tag/ruby https://github.com/manastech/crystal/releases/tag/ruby You can read about the bootstrapping moment here: http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.html http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.ht...
• earleybird 11y ago
  originally Ruby http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.html http://crystal-lang.org/2013/11/14/good-bye-ruby-thursday.ht...
• deleted 11y ago
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